SARS-CoV-2: Anatomy of a Pandemic
In late 2002, a then-undescribed virus crossed the species barrier in southern China and found a welcoming home in the lungs of humans. Over the next eight or so months, it spread, at first quietly across the region, and then explosively across the globe. The disease, what we have come to know as SARS or the severe acute respiratory syndrome, would infect more than 8,000 people and kill hundreds.